Sally Vix wrote:
Presidential candidate Joe Biden bragged at how he was able to fire the special prosecutor of his son, Hunter. Extortion 101. I am not a lawyer but that seems Extortion 101 and he will never be president.
So you take a pretty straight forward question and answer with a whataboutism that is far from being equivalent. I know you think you are trolling everyone but if you stop and look at how often you post it should make you wonder.
Lets dumb the Biden thing for you once more, just for good measure:
- Due to daddy's position, Hunter got a high paying job on the board the Ukrainian NG company.
- While he had no apparent qualifications for the job and it was obviously a conflict of interest situation - there was nothing illegal about it.
- Through consensus between western europe, the Obama admin, and congress, Biden delivered the message that the lame prosecutor wasn't doing anything and needed to go or else loan guarantees would be held up. NOTE THE KEY DIFFERENCES HERE: despite the conflict of interest, there is no evidence that Joe was targeting the prosecutor for going after the company the son worked for. In fact this kills the idea of intent... the US and Europe officially wanted the prosecutor gone which is proof that Biden's action was prompted by policy (unless you are somehow going to prove that Biden convinced Obama, Congress and Western Europe that the prosecutor was useless just to prevent them from going after the company the son worked for???)
- the prosecutor was fired, and of course offered the theory that he was a target because of Hunter's relationship with the VP.
- Not a single Republican congressman complained about it or accuse Biden then and the EU applauded the outcome
- furthermore, it has not been established as fact that the prosecutor was investigating that company (and recent confirmation has come out of Ukraine that this was the case)
- Biden boasts about having pushed the prosecutor out. Yes, he did, but he never said it had anything to do with the son.
To summarize for your pea brain, there are two massive differences between Biden and Trump's actions that completely invalidate your claim of equivalence:
1) Whether it benefited his son or not, Biden was acting on behalf of an open and endorsed policy by Obama, Congress and the EU. Trump was not acting on behalf of any official policy to root out specific corruption involving Biden. If you want to refute that then you must prove that Biden coerced Obama, Congress and the EU to play along.
2) Biden did not say to the prosecutor "hey I might push to have you fired, but if you stop investigating Burisma I'll reconsider" or "I will make sure you keep your job, but can you do me a favor and stop looking into Burisma because my son is on the board". Even with your small brain you can understand the difference between that and what trump said:
"I will say that we do a lot for Ukraine. We spend a lot of effort and a lot of time. "... "I wouldn't say that it's reciprocal necessarily because things are happening that are not good but the United States has been very very good to Ukraine."
"I would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it. I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine, they say Crowdstrike... I guess you have one of your wealthy people... The server, they say Ukraine has it. There are a lot of things that went on, the whole situation. I think you're surrounding yourself with some of the same people. I would like to have the Attorney General call you or your people and I would like you to get to the bottom of it. As you saw yesterday, that whole nonsense ended with a very poor performance by a man named Robert Mueller, an incompetent performance, but they say a lot of it started with Ukraine. Whatever you can do, it's very important that you do it if that's possible."
"The other thing, There's a lot of talk about Biden's son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great. Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it... It sounds horrible to me."
See the difference? Maybe reread it a few times, it'll click I promise.